[clug] Reading old ZIP drive

Eyal Lebedinsky eyal at eyal.emu.id.au
Mon Feb 16 20:54:22 MST 2015


My fedora 19 does not have this driver :-(

On 17/02/15 13:06, Steve Barnes wrote:
> Seems pretty straight forward according to:
>
>     http://tldp.org/HOWTO/ZIP-Drive-4.html
>
> [root at mail ~]# uname -a
> Linux mail.dot.echo.id.au 2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 28 21:11:36 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> [root at mail ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
> CentOS release 6.6 (Final)
> [root at mail ~]# modinfo ppa
> filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/scsi/ppa.ko
> license:        GPL
> srcversion:     65ADE3614FE37AC1041AEB2
> depends:        parport
> vermagic:       2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.x86_64 SMP mod_unload modversions
> [root at mail ~]#
>
> Should be plug and play ;-)
>
> Steve
>
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:38:11PM +1100, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
>> A friend wants to recover files from an old iomega ZIP disk.
>>
>> It is a parallel port ZIP 100. We have the actual drive, is there a program that
>> can access the parallel port and talk to it?
>>
>> Also, does anyone have a iomega superdisk 120 drive? We also have one such disk
>> that we want to read.
>>
>> TIA
>>
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